This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....

Davis offers a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they’re increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the “body/brain,” and what these encounters might tell us....

Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...

Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences...

Kinzler argues that the way we talk is central to our social identity because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children...

Why does music elicit emotions?

Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.

Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?

Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...

How would you like to experience your life? It’s an intriguing question, and yet we’ve been conditioned to believe our life visions and goals are often unattainable—until now....

When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why...

Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on neuroscientific theory and research methodology.

How is communicating virtually Is like eating Pringles forever?

Engaging with one’s patients is one of the most complicated aspects of being a psychoanalyst...

Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...

What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?

What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?

Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...

LSD is on your doctor's menu. At least not yet....

Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?

Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...

Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...

What are best-practices for alleviating stress in the workplace?

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.